At 3:15 PM +0900 6/14/02, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
>  >I'm reading between the lines here, but if I understand the situation
>>then OpenBSD has discovered that some (all?) versions of Open
>>Firmware support FDISK partitioning with MS-DOS formatted partitions
>>and can load ofwboot from the MS-DOS partition.
>
>	from what I see in NetBSD INSTALL.txt, i think it natural,
>	if you interpret "MS-DOS filesystem" as "MS-DOS partition within
>	FDISK-partitioned harddisk".
>
>itojun
>
>---
>	   o   Open Firmware 1.0.5, Open Firmware 1.1.22, Open Firmware 2.0.x
>	       -   MS-DOS filesystem
>
>	   o   Open Firmware 2.4
>	       -   MS-DOS filesystem
>
>	   o   Open Firmware 3
>	       -   MS-DOS filesystem

I once tried to access an MS-DOS partition on an Apple-partitioned 
disk under OF 3 and it didn't work.  OTOH I've seen the packages 
listed as though it should.  I figured they were just remnants, and 
not real (except MS-DOS floppies on OF 1).
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